A second ATP singles title, and a top-30 singles breakthrough, is in sight as Jordan Thompson advances to the Atlanta Open remaining.
Atlanta, United States, 28 July 2024 | Vivienne Christie
A top-30 singles breakthrough is in sight for Jordan Thompson, after the Australian survived his second three-set contest in as many days to progress to the Atlanta Open remaining.
Thompson defeated Jerry Shang 6-3 4-6 6-3 to earn the chance to contest a fourth profession remaining on the ATP 250 event.
Ought to he carry a second singles trophy on the laborious courts of Atlanta – having additionally achieved so in Los Cabos earlier this season – the 30-year-old Thompson will enter the world’s high 30.
Following earlier title runs for Nick Kyrgios and Alex de Minaur, he may additionally turn into the fourth Australian participant to triumph on the Atlanta Open up to now eight years.
The fourth-seeded Thompson labored laborious to safe victory over the 19-year-old qualifier, ultimately doing so after two hours and 22 minutes.
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It adopted a marathon quarterfinal win over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, with their three-hour, three-minute quarterfinal the longest match within the event’s historical past.
“It’s been powerful however thus far, so good,” stated Thompson, whose famend health has come into play in some searing Atlanta situations.
“I’ve had lengthy gruelling matches, however I feel I’m perhaps one of many fitter guys on the market, so so long as I keep wholesome and never injured, I really feel like I can play within the warmth and hard situations.”
As he prepares to face both Arthur Rinderknech or Yoshihito Nishioka in tomorrow’s remaining, Thompson will even draw confidence from some strong serving all through the event.
Having served 21 aces towards Davidovich Fokina, he fired one other 13 towards Shang.
With a first-serve success charge of 75 per cent, Thompson additionally received 78 per cent of these factors.
“I served very well at present. I solely was damaged one time, held off a few video games,” he commented in his post-match interview.
“I felt like my serve actually stored me in it.”
It continues a season of spectacular progress for Thompson, who peaked at world No.32 after his title breakthrough in Los Cabos in February.
The Sydneysider defeated No.1 seed Alexander Zverev and No.4 seed Casper Ruud to finish that profitable marketing campaign.
He’ll intention to take care of that type towards Nishioka, whom he’s but to defeat in 4 earlier matches.
Confidence for Thompson will maybe come from his hard-fought win over Shang, who defeated the Australian within the first spherical of Indian Wells earlier this yr.
“That was a foul day on the workplace for me,.” Thompson reasoned. “He performed a great match that day … that may occur the place one man’s on and one man’s off ,however I performed an entire lot higher at present and made a extremely nice match of it. It got here right down to the wire and ultimately I received there.”
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